Welcome!¶
H5Boss is an exploratory python tool for managing BOSS spectra data, SDSS-II.
Boss is originally maintained as millions of fits file in thousands of different folders. Accessing and analyzing them are inefficient in terms of I/O bandwidth and programming productivity. In h5boss, we developed functions to support:
- Reformatting: Preserve the fits file structure and spectrum hierarchicy using HDF5
- Subsetting: Support subset/add/update operation, to extract selected ‘plate/mjd/fiber’ and save in one HDF5 file
Currently, h5boss is implemented in both python and c version, in which the python version is actively maintained and supported. The c version is mainly for I/O sensitive users/applications.